The Humans - BLU-RAY [Standard]

For her first Thanksgiving in the shabby NYC Chinatown apartment of her fiancé Richard (Steven Yuen), Brigid Blake (Beanie Feldstein) set a table for her working-class Scranton dad and mom (Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell), dementia-stricken grandma (June Squibb), and chronically ill Philly lawyer sister (Amy Schumer). The resentments and revelations will be served hot in this trenchant ensemble piece written and directed by Stephen Karam, who adapted his Tony-winning play for the screen. 108 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront) set the mark for a brilliant career in the Men, his film debut. Brando plays an ex-WWII GI, Ken who returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his Fiancée (Teresa Wright) and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock (Everett Sloane) cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm (Jack Webb), Leo (Richard Erdman) and Angel (Arthur Jurado) begin to pull him out of his spiritual miasma. High Noon writing and directing greats, Carl Foreman (The Guns of Navarone), and Fred Zimmermann (From Here to Eternity) worked together for the first time in this rousing drama nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar. Produced by the great Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind) with a haunting score by the legendary composer, Dimitri Tiomkin (Rio Bravo).

In the 1980s, Korean immigrant Jacob Yi (Steven Yuen) sought his piece of the American dream when he packed up his family from California for an Arkansas parcel where he'd farm his homeland's produce. The strains of their new existence, and the fitful bonding of sickly son David (Alan Kim) with the grandmother (Youn Yuh-jung) come to help care for him, are lyrically explored in writer-director's Lee Isaac Chung's acclaimed, semi-autobiographical opus; Yeri Han, Noel Kate Cho co-star. 105 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.